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Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Leader of a team of 85 technologists responsible for providing IT services to over 800 employees at STScI, which provides research, science and mission operations for the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, on behalf of NASA. ITSD is responsible for all IT infrastructure, data center, security, user support, applications management, cloud computing and more. Specific responsibilities of this role include:• Accountable leader for… Show more Leader of a team of 85 technologists responsible for providing IT services to over 800 employees at STScI, which provides research, science and mission operations for the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, on behalf of NASA. ITSD is responsible for all IT infrastructure, data center, security, user support, applications management, cloud computing and more. Specific responsibilities of this role include:• Accountable leader for all aspects of IT services, including quality, delivery, budget management and more.• Member of STScI Leadership Team responsible for oversight, strategy and policies for entire Institute, including leading key initiatives.• Leader for developing IT strategy for STScI, including transformational roadmaps.• Co-lead for developing strategies for cloud-first enterprise computing, IT process improvement, adopting a DevOps engineering model, advancing Enterprise Architecture, and Machine Learning. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Capability Lead for Technology Advisory Services in the healthcare and public sector domains. Collaborate with clients to lead large-scale, mission-critical IT projects. Lead major engagements in IT strategy and integration architectures that enabled clients to develop new lines of business, align IT projects against changing business needs, improve efficiency and profitability, improve systems reliability and more.• Project lead for IT Process Improvement engagements, including agile… Show more Capability Lead for Technology Advisory Services in the healthcare and public sector domains. Collaborate with clients to lead large-scale, mission-critical IT projects. Lead major engagements in IT strategy and integration architectures that enabled clients to develop new lines of business, align IT projects against changing business needs, improve efficiency and profitability, improve systems reliability and more.• Project lead for IT Process Improvement engagements, including agile development and IT governance that improved software development schedules and improved software quality.• Facilitate client visioning for to-be enterprise architectures directly aligned to business strategy.• Develop IT roadmaps of sequenced and estimated projects for business leadership, which enabled clients to create more cost-efficient and higher-performing IT investment portfolios that produced better results sooner.• Manage projects to develop Accenture offerings to the marketplace for IT strategy, cloud computing and other areas that served as the basis for improving revenue and profitability.• Thought leader responsible for intellectual property helping CIOs to look 3-5 years down the road, increasing Accenture’s profile as an innovator in the health and state/local government marketplaces and to introduce firm to new potential clients.• Co-lead of Accenture Global Gender Diversity Council and LGBT Mentor. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Recruited to create the office of Health Strategy and Innovation to establish profitable new health technology lines of business for GDIT. Led efforts to develop a portfolio of integrated consulting, outsourcing and technology services.• Led development of new offerings for health IT strategy, connected health and enterprise architecture that resulted in contract engagements with multiple Federal agencies.• Recognized thought leader responsible for presentations and publications on… Show more Recruited to create the office of Health Strategy and Innovation to establish profitable new health technology lines of business for GDIT. Led efforts to develop a portfolio of integrated consulting, outsourcing and technology services.• Led development of new offerings for health IT strategy, connected health and enterprise architecture that resulted in contract engagements with multiple Federal agencies.• Recognized thought leader responsible for presentations and publications on health IT innovation that introduced GDIT to new clients and opportunities.• Led development of projects for mobile computing, big data and predictive analytics.• Developed methodology and tools for client project risk management.• Facilitated architecture and integration collaboration with health stakeholders nationwide. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led the Federal Health Architecture practice that that connected multiple Federal agencies and commercial healthcare entities to share and improve healthcare data across the U.S.• Co-architect of the Nationwide Health Information Network, one of the principal networks for exchanging health data in the U.S. for over 125 million Americans.• Developed enterprise architectures across the entire U.S. Government as well as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) used to improve… Show more Led the Federal Health Architecture practice that that connected multiple Federal agencies and commercial healthcare entities to share and improve healthcare data across the U.S.• Co-architect of the Nationwide Health Information Network, one of the principal networks for exchanging health data in the U.S. for over 125 million Americans.• Developed enterprise architectures across the entire U.S. Government as well as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) used to improve the quality of citizen services and significantly improve the performance and cost-effectiveness of IT portfolio spending.• Systems Architect for the development of an open-source Java / Web Services solution for facilitating health data exchanges currently used by U.S. government, state-level and commercial healthcare entities and accelerate their ability to share data with each other. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Designed and led development of component-based mission-critical enterprise systems in the domains of finance, healthcare, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and more.• Served as Solutions and Systems Architect for software based on the .NET and Java platforms.• Writer / Presenter to marketplace for software development best practices and health IT security.• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design architect and instructor for clients.